Modeling Approaches for the Macrocirculation

As we noted in the previous chapter, the human vascular system consists of a huge number of vessels with different diameters, lengths and wall thicknesses. In both the venous and arterial vessel trees, subnetworks with different length scales can be identified. There are essentially three different types of length scales: Macrocirculation, mesoscale and microcirculation [1, Chap. 1].